Tabulate Corals from the Carboniferous Hina Limestone, Okayama Prefecture.

Accession number;99A1015086
Title;Tabulate Corals from the Carboniferous Hina Limestone, Okayama Prefecture.
Author; NIKO S (Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima, Jpn)
Journal Title;Bull Natl Sci Mus Ser C
Journal Code:S0397B
ISSN:0385-244X
VOL.25;NO.1/2;PAGE.29-44(1999)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.9, REF.30
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;This paper represents the first record of tabulate corals from the Carboniferous Hina Limestone in Okayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan. The following three favositid and two auloporid tabulate coral species are described for taxonomic, biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic purposes: Pseudofavosites hinaensis sp. nov., Donetzites kibiensis sp. nov., D. vermiculatus sp. nov., Cladochonus sp. indet. and Mandulapora yamagiwai sp. nov. With the exception of Mandulapora yamagiwai, whose decided range is late Visean to late Bashkirian, these corals occur within the Eostaffella-Millerella Zone of late Visean to early Bashkirian age. Donetzites and Mandulapora were not previously known in Japan. (author abst.)